“What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.”
– Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins
“I think that love isn’t what you think it is when you’re in your twenties or even thirties.”
– Paul Theroux
“No heart is so hard as the timid heart.”
– Norman Mailer, The Gospel According to the Son
“They went in and out of each other’s minds without any effort.”
– Virginia Woolf
“I love you so much I’ll never be able to tell you; I’m frightened to tell you. I can always feel your heart. Dance tunes are always right: I love you body and soul: —and I suppose body means that I want to touch you and be in bed with you, and I suppose soul means that I can hear you and see you and love you in every single, single thing in the whole world asleep or awake.”
– Dylan Thomas
“I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
